Lloyd Alexander Quotes
The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a really intellectually free environment, you get to work with people who are like-minded, it's very energetic. It's wonderful.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, 'Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,-Sleep before Death.'
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My own proposals for reform in academia include the abolition of all literary conferences and the replacement of women's studies with sex studies, based on the rigorous study of world history, anthropology, psychology, and science. Today, in politically correct America, questions of quality, learning, and intellectual distinction are out of style.
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The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
